Memorial services for Chief Rabbi A. I. Hacohen Kook were held in the Lucerne Synagogue this afternoon.
The meeting was under the auspices of the Mizrachi group attending the nineteenth World Zionist Congress here and the Switzerland Mizrachi organization. Principal speakers eulogizing the dead rabbi were Rabbis Ostrowsky, Meier Berlin and Wolf Golf, president of the Mizrachi Organization of America.
A solemn memorial session was conducted last night by the World Zionist Congress in honor of Rabbi Kook.
The afternoon session was adjourned as a sign of mourning, and the congress praesidium immediately dispatched a message of condolence to the family of the late sage.
Ussishkin, world president of the Jewish National Fund, announced that at a special session the Fund had decided to establish a colony in the dead rabbi’s honor.
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